SultanOfSwing

Only 95% of them ...

Actually I could have seen a lot more of them - my parents were married in 1969. Just my dad apparently took ten years to work out what his knob was for ...

For me it went through stages. 1st - 4th year it was divided between wishing we had a football team and wanting to play cricket but not wanting to give up my Saturdays so being forced to do swimming which I hated because I can't swim.

5th year/lower 6th was convincing the Geography teacher who ran the basketball group to let us play football; until the people in the year below came along and actually wanted to play basketball.

Upper sixth was 20 B&H and 'sorry sir, I forgot my shorts today'. Off to the darkroom for a crafty smoke and 5 minutes of developing photos

Nutek

No.10's if you were really desperate.

dakota44

Hmmm,,sorry, but even had you been born on their wedding day you would never have been old enough to REALLY enjoy the 70's.

Nutek

That would take the fun out of it a bit, yeah.

Mind you, everyone floats eventually.

SultanOfSwing

I might have discovered wanking towards the end of 1979 ...

Anyway, I get to enjoy the 70s more now. I can listen to all the good prog and hard rock, without having to endure the disco

I hated being forced into it. I should have just joined the bloody cricket team!

Englishtart

or 10 No.6's I think sovereign were the first pack I ever bought, must have been 40 years ago!

Nutek

yes!

Uncle Ebenezer

Monocotyledons and dicotyledons.

paranoidandroid

So did we, I think there was less litter and risk of child molesters then, though.

As can bacteria. You did realise this was about Primary school, didn't you?
Evidently.

Because he's old enough to be your Great Uncle, or some other reason?
You're painting such a charming picture of suburbia... Sounds like something The Jam might have written. You're not Paul Weller, are you?

You smoke King Edwards nowdays, right?

SultanOfSwing

The first bit was primary school, the second was the only occasion I could think of where we did anything that could have been called a 'nature walk' while still at school.

There was that one time, in primary school, where we went to some agricultural centre for our summer trip and we all thought it was a great idea to eat the wild garlic that was growing around the place. F***ing stank in the bus on the way back to the school

paranoidandroid

Sounds like a perfect example of the old chestnut.. "It seemed like a good idea at the time".

SultanOfSwing

Well yes, but an eight year old's life is full of such moments. Except throwing worms at the girls on sports day - that's always a good idea

Nutek

Primary school.

Mrs Manning.. if you are reading this, you were a mean, mean dinner lady.

SultanOfSwing

That's all well and good - can you imagine my delight though, the day my bloody mother turns up as our new dinner lady?

Oh aye, standing outside the headmaster's office for saying f*** in class becomes so much more fun when it happens three seconds before your ma shows up for work. Bastards

Nutek

Also, Mrs Manning would be about 120 by now. Probably too mean for that to have stopped her though.